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The donor recently gave Harvard money for the fountain, which will cost close to $250,000, Peter Walker, the structure's designer and a professor of landscape architecture and urban design at the Graduate School of Design said this week.
This happened at among other places. Yale's School of Architecture, which opened in 1963 to widespread attention as an innovative architectural achievement but which soon ran into structural problems.
And more recently, the University of Florida completed a new architecture complex in 1979 and has already had to repair part of it because the correct materials were not always used in the construction, according to John McRae, chairman of the architecture department of that school.
The structure, consisting as it does of four levels of studios built under a glass sky lit roof, has been widely recognized as an innovation in architecture.
Because architecture schools often attempt to display in their own buildings striking examples of the most advanced architecture of the time, experts say, these buildings are more prone than most to unforeseen difficulties.